When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook. “I think Allison got engaged?” our mutual friend Kaitlin texted me one day. “I think I saw it on Facebook?” I denied that it could possibly be true. Surely Allison would have told…

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Egypte - Minorités - Environnement - Déchets Les chiffonniers du Caire et la « grippe porcine » Dans les premiers jours de mai 2009, après un Conseil des ministres réuni le 30 avril et présidé par le chef de l’Etat, M. Hosni Moubarak (1) , la police égyptienne et des vétérinaires réquisitionnés…

Suzanne Franks and her son Ben, youngest of her three children Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian T here was a time when sending a misbehaving youngster off to their bedroom was viewed as a punishment. It was supposed to make them feel isolated and excluded; an admonishment to sit alone and…

‘The yearning for safety in a dangerous world also explains the growing demands that students make for trigger warnings.’Illustration: Leon Edler L ast month, in the early hours, an act of traumatising racist violence occurred on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Students woke up…

FOR many it is a reflex as unconscious as breathing. Hit a stumbling-block during an important task (like, say, writing a column)? The hand reaches for the phone and opens the social network of choice. A blur of time passes, and half an hour or more of what ought to have been productive effort is…

Première initiative, motivée par l'expression des attentes et besoins concrets des doctorants, a pour objectif de donner aux doctorants en sciences humaines et sociales, un ensemble construit d'outils théoriques, méthodologiques et techniques, destinés à faciliter leur parcours doctoral. Assieds-toi…

Marcher dans la rue. Prendre le métro le soir. Mettre une minijupe, un décolleté et de hauts talons. Danser seule au milieu de la piste. Me maquiller comme un camion volé. Prendre un taxi en étant un peu ivre. M’allonger dans l’herbe à moitié dénudée. Faire du stop. Monter dans un Noctambus. Voyager…

Fighting procrastination teaches us to fully engage in our work, get more creative with it, and, ultimately, get more done. Procrastination affects everyone. It sneaks up on most people when they’re tired or bored, but for some, procrastination can be a full-fledged addiction. They avoid all day the…

Amy Lee, criminal record number 780LB, January 1930. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW. Courtesy the Justice and Police Museum, Sydney Debates about people who have committed crimes are littered with epithets. We brand people as offenders , criminals , crooks , felons , convicts ,…

Illustration: Sebastien Thibault E veryone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise of economic growth is that the poor can live like the rich and the rich can live like the oligarchs. But already we are bursting through the physical limits of the planet that sustains us. Climate…

Step into any college lecture hall and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops as the professor speaks. But you won’t see that when I’m teaching. Though I make a few exceptions, I generally ban electronics, including laptops, in my classes and research seminars.…

C es dernières années, les choses sont allées bien plus vite que beaucoup ne le pensaient. Le système de la mondialisation néolibérale craque de toutes parts, même s’il ne faut pas croire qu’il tombera comme un fruit mûr ; à l’échelle planétaire, un vaste mouvement appelé altermondialiste est en…

Un jean, trois T-shirts, une brosse à dent, un laptop et un smartphone. Voilà, à peu de choses près, la liste des objets dont vous avez besoin pour vivre à la mode minimaliste. Une tendance qui s'affirme, quelque part entre refus du consumérisme, écologie sociale et hyperconnexion. Pour en savoir…

Qui était Carl Schmitt ?Juriste allemand, né en 1888 et mort en 1985, Carl Schmitt était considéré comme l'un des grands constitutionnalistes et théoricien du droit de la période de la République de Weimar, juste avant l'avènement du régime nazi. Après avoir développé avant 1933 des analyses qui ont…

Jasu Hu O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her…

Note: This is the second article in a series about gender and equality. The first one is called What’s the Problem with Men? In it, I discuss a lot of the unhealthy cultural forces that lead men to oppress women (as well as damage themselves). In this piece, I look at the feminist movement and…

I’m disappointed about Instagram’s most recent announcement . They’ll be shifting their photo feed from a chronological list to an algorithmically driven one, ordered based on which posts they think you will like most. My disappointment is not based in nostalgia or a lament of change. I’m…

Machiavelli is often portrayed as the first honest teacher of dishonest politics.Photograph: Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images I f you’re a political outsider who wants to move fast to the top job in a democracy, how to do it? You could start by dipping into a book written 500 years ago by…

Source: Wikimedia Commons “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” So goes one of the G.K. Chesterton’s most famous and most quoted lines. Considered “a man of colossal genius” by George Bernard Shaw, G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer— publishing 80 books, 200 short stories and over…

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We were keeping our eye on 1984. But it’s Brave New World we should have feared instead.Photograph: Flickr/Urban Integration Over the last year, as the presidential campaign grew increasingly bizarre and Donald Trump took us places we had never been before, I saw a spike in media references to…

Sunrise at sea. Photo by Michelle Zeratsky. It’s early and dark. The alarm sounds, and you reach over to switch it off. After a short pause, you sit up. You swing your legs off the bed, touch the floor with your feet, and reach for your phone. You sit quietly while your phone’s screen illuminates…

"Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock" 1620 (Peter Frederick Rothermel / Library of Congress / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic) Ever since Donald Trump handed down his executive order temporarily halting all immigration from seven majority-Muslim nations for three months and barring refugees from…

There’s that project you’ve left on the backburner – the one with the deadline that’s growing uncomfortably near. And there’s the client whose phone call you really should return – the one that does nothing but complain and eat up your valuable time. Wait, weren’t you going to try to go to the gym…

Photo: Grady Reese When I first started training for marathons a little over ten years ago, my coach told me something I’ve never forgotten: that I would need to learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I didn’t know it at the time, but that skill, cultivated through running, would help…

Justin Fantl As Christmas approached in 2015, the price of pumpkin-pie spice went wild. It didn’t soar, as an economics textbook might suggest. Nor did it crash. It just started vibrating between two quantum states. Amazon’s price for a one-ounce jar was either $4.49 or $8.99, depending on when you…

At a forum last year, Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron, left, interviews Amazon.com founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos, who said at one point, “I think a lot of us believe this, that democracy dies in darkness.” (April Greer/For The Washington Post) It may be the most widely debated and…

And what will rise from its ashes. Subtlety. “The biggest advertisers on television are cars; retailers; CPG companies, all of which have business models that are fundamentally threatened by the internet. These are all companies that are mass market, but the offline mass market relative to the…

Last week, Facebook announced that Instagram Stories had reached 200 million daily active users (DAUs). People were quick to pounce on that significant number and declare that finally, Mark Zuckerberg had ‘killed’ Snapchat and Facebook and Instagram were winning some imaginary war. Many tweeted…

What began as an attempt at a simpler life quickly became a life-style brand.

Article Contents 1 Explainer: business case 2 The falling tower of Babel 3 Money in the messenger 4 Say ‘ello to Allo 5 I’ve got 160 characters but "$" ain't one 6 Jibe talkin’ 7 Conclusion I have a simple rule in life—if something does not seem to make sense, look for the money. What I mean is that…

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How to figure out what you want to say. The great thing about blogging is that you can, literally, write about anything. The sky is the limit. Also? No one is going to read it for a while (harsh, but true), so you can experiment with relatively low risk. So, blog about baking scones today and about…

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Philippe Poutou pendant le débat, mardi soir. Photo Lionel Bonaventure. AFP Au lieu de feindre la vertu outragée, il faudrait plutôt remercier Philippe Poutou d’avoir fait le job à ce moment du débat qui abordait la question de la morale en politique : arrêter de tourner autour du pot et poser les…

One year ago I gave myself a challenge to post one blog post each week on Medium. Why? I wanted to see if this writing hobby of mine had any merit. Nothing better than a self imposed rule with the hashtag #humpdayheidi. With friend and family encouragement, I published a new piece every Wednesday.…